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December 28, 2004
The Mog
It's Tuesday, and after putting in a day at work close to home, Richard is doing one brief road trip before we head down to Vancouver. They have finally had enough accumulation at the ski resorts and other areas where Richard's potential clients clear snow to make it worthwhile for him to show off the Unimog. So he left at 5am for a place near Vernon to demo the plow and blower, and will leave it with the client for the week in the hopes they won't want to part with it on Sunday... |
Which means he's stranded there, so I'm going to brave the winter roads and drive down to pick him up, and we'll be on our way to Vancouver late this afternoon, ahead of schedule. We'll be in late, so don't expect to hear from us tonight, but knowing Richard he'll probably wake a few of you up tomorrow morning (sorry!). |
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Richard did manage to clear our driveway using the blower when we had the big snowfall Christmas Day, but he took a pretty large chunk of dirt out of it in the process (our drive is gravel, not pavement, and grown over). This photo is from Whistler, where Richard finally found enough snow for the Mog to really sink its teeth into. As most of you know, the category "Shop Talk" refers to the fabricating (I don't dare say "tinkering") Richard looks forward to doing on his off-road rig once the barn has been converted. (And initially will probably feature pictures of the process of reconstructing the barn...) But as Richard's life outside our home renovations is pretty obsessed with the Unimog, I'm giving the first Shop Talk space to it. |
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| So if you were wondering what the hell a Unimog is, now you know. By the way, in addition to the 4-million-pounds-an-hour snow blower attachment or the snow plow, this "implement carrier" (it's not a truck, he says) has attachments for brush trimming, street cleaning, cranes, manlifts, grapples, graders, and firefighting equipment, to name a few, all on a 4 wheel drive that can do 110K on the highway and take a 30 degree side angle in the woods no problem. And the one Richard is driving now has this nifty little option where you can shift a lever and the entire steering and dash assembly slides over from left to right hand drive so you can see what you're doing if you're clearing the right hand side of the road. It's quite the "truck". Anyway, we're off... looking forward to seeing as many of you as we can for sushi at 7pm on Thursday, or for New Year's Eve. We've got the cell, so please give us a call. |
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Posted by anita at December 28, 2004 9:17 AM
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I'll hold off on making a comment about this one. :)
Posted by: Warren | 19:11 26 January 2005